The third-semester exam results for Class XII students of the state board — the first under the new semester-based system — have shown a rise in the pass percentage but a decline in the number of top scorers.The results, ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphA decomposed body was found in a manhole off Keshab Chandra Sen Street on Friday morning during drain-cleaning work by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) workers, following a family’s complaint about a choked drain.The body was retrieved and taken to ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphAs many as 85 new dengue cases were reported between October 19 and 26 in the city, a Kolkata Municipal Corporation official said on Friday.Since January, 1,017 cases have been recorded, 226 more than during the same period last ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphIt was an evening of excitement, cheers and also clock-watching at Salt Lake Maitri Sangha’s Kali puja function this year, where the audience had to wait till after 10pm to hear Indian Idol Season 10 winner and Bollywood singer ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphBC Block hosted a Bengali-themed fashion show over the Kali Puja weekend, where participants not only dressed in traditional style but also shared their knowledge and opinion on Bengali culture.The judges were Susmita Siddhanta and Soma Sen — both ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphThe fair that brings global products to your doostep is back at the City Square ground. Bharat Chamber of Commerce (BCC), which turns 125 this year, unveiled the India International Grand Trade Fair 2025, in partnership with CCG Marketing ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphThe ghats of Benaras were the inspiration behind the arrangements at the Central Park fairgrounds where Marwari Sanskriti Manch was hosting Deepavali Mahotsav 2025 on Diwali-eve.At the centre of the programme was a 24-ft Mahalaxmi idol, which looks identical ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphThe Hariyana Vidya Mandir annual cultural programme this year was named Tarang 2025 and the theme, appropriately, was ‘waves of joy’.The event was inaugurated by industrialist and educationist Suresh Chand Bansal alongside principal Sanghamitra Banerjee. Local councilor Rajesh Chirimar ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphA swimming tournament took place at the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation pool, with 175 swimmers from 30 schools competing across 106 events.It was the CISCE Zonal Swimming and Diving Competition 2025 for ICSE-affiliated Zone G schools. The meet included events ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphThey decorated diyas, created rangolis and danced their hearts out. Little Einsteins, the pre-school and day care centre in CF Block, simulated an early Diwali where kids got a feel of the festival even before celebrating it at home.Eeshan ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphWe visit pujas, admire the artwork, eat in the food courts, make merry in the adjoining fairs, but do we stop to think of the carbon footprint of it all?Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) in AF Block, under the ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphIn the midst of intense rainfall and the expectation of more rain, Calcutta has not altered.Piles of plastic waste had filled drainage pumping stations during the deluge of September 23, when the Met office recorded 252mm of rain in ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphA molestation charge has been added to the existing allegations in the case of assault on GST and customs officer Pradeep Kumar and his wife, police said on Thursday.“Following our investigation into the allegations made against the accused and ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphThe man who was found dead inside a hotel room on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road on October 24 had allegedly tried robbing his killers after bringing them to the hotel room, police said on Thursday.Rahul Lal, 26, allegedly threatened ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphLifestyle changes after Covid have made the young more vulnerable to strokes, doctors said at a programme to raise awareness on the threat on Wednesday.“Stroke is not limited only to elderly people, especially after the Covid pandemic, because of ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphPolice arrested Ravikumar Bharadwaj from Bihar on Thursday for allegedly shooting at his former girlfriend in Jadavpur on Monday evening.Senior officers of Kolkata Police said a team from Jadavpur police station will go to Patna to bring Bharadwaj to ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphThe family of Pradeep Kar, the 57-year-old Khardah resident who died by suicide allegedly fearing he would have to prove his citizenship afresh, filed a police complaint on Thursday accusing “unknown persons” of abetment.This is the first complaint of ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphThe university needs to obtain reaccreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), otherwise, it will face challenges in securing funding from various agencies, said Ashutosh Ghosh, the newly appointed full-term vice-chancellor of Calcutta University, on Thursday.Ghosh assumed ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphNo more than three Bengali films will release on the same high-business days, film producers, directors, and technicians decided at a joint meeting.The meeting between the Eastern India Motion Picture Association (EIMPA) and the Federation of Cine Technicians and ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta port has awarded a four-acre plot on Strand Road to Srijan Realty to build retail and office space as part of a broader plan to transform the Hooghly riverfront on both banks.Srijan will hold a 60-year lease on ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphEarly identification and intervention are crucial for children with dyslexia, a rehabilitation psychologist said at a programme on Wednesday. A delay makes them slip into “psychological trauma”, and recovery from that takes a lot of time. “Early diagnosis is ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphTwo men who had allegedly strangled to death a 26-year-old man in a hotel room on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road on October 24 were arrested in Odisha on Wednesday.Shaktikant Behra, 21, and Santosh Behera, 20, were arrested in Cuttack, ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphThe higher education department on Wednesday appointed full-term vice-chancellors for Calcutta University and Jadavpur University. Ashutosh Ghosh has been appointed VC of Calcutta University. He has previously served as the university's interim VC.Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, the president of the state ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphIIM Calcutta has pleaded ignorance about the administrative crisis in the B-School and reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining the highest standards of transparency, governance, and institutional integrity in all its operations.The Telegraph sought comments from the Board of Governors ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphSeparate teams from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted search and seizure operations at two addresses of a Calcutta-based businessman.The teams visited his Taratala office and his godown in Lake Town on Wednesday. According to sources, several kilos of gold ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphThere will be an increased police presence in front of Deeshari Megacity, a housing society in Rajpur, where a mob of 200-250 men had stormed in to confront a customs department officer hours after an accident involving the officer's ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphThe School Service Commission (SSC) will publish the list of shortlisted candidates for higher secondary teaching jobs by the first week of November, a commission official said on Wednesday.The shortlist of secondary-level candidates is likely to be announced by ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphPortions of Park Circus Maidan will be closed to make space for relocating traders from the dilapidated Park Circus market and to host a circus, the state urban development department has said in a notification.Discussions about shifting the traders ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphOver the past few days, a group of college students wandered through the lanes of north Calcutta, discovering its heritage and documenting its sights, sounds, and stories — from the chug of the circular railway to the buzz of ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphJustice Subhra Ghosh of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday allowed customs officer Pradeep Kumar to file a petition seeking a probe by a court-appointed special investigation team into the attack on his apartment in a housing society on the ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphThe remnants of Cyclone Montha brought back overcast skies and persistent showers to the city on Wednesday as the storm continued to weaken while moving inland.Parts of the coastal districts, including East Midnapore and South 24-Parganas, received heavy rain. ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphRelatives and neighbours of the 57-year-old man found dead in Khardah on Tuesday spoke on Wednesday about his deep anxiety over having to prove his Indian citizenship.Police said Pradeep Kar had recorded some of his fears and worries in ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphThe Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) has entered the top 10 globally in the QS International Trade Rankings 2026 for Executive MBAs, securing the eighth position worldwide and first in India, the institute said on Wednesday.The ranking assesses ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered over Rs 1 crore in south west Calcutta’s Taratala area during a raid in connection with the municipal scam.Raid at the address in Taratala have been going on since Tuesday night. ED suspects the ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a nationalised bank's branch at Gariahat Road in the southern part of Kolkata on Wednesday morning, police said.No casualty was reported in the incident, a senior officer said.At least six fire tenders were pressed ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphA 57-year-old man died by suicide at his home in Khardah on Tuesday after holding the “NRC” responsible for his death, touching off a political slugfest that saw Mamata Banerjee ripping into the BJP’s “politics of fear and division” ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphRamesh Sippy, the director of the magnum opus, Sholay, has been invited to deliver the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF).The maker of the film that turned 50 this year will deliver the ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphSeveral CBSE schools are planning to adjust their academic calendars to accommodate the second Class X board exam, tentatively scheduled in May. A second exam implies that schools will need teachers to conduct the exam, and will also have ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphThe first-year student of South Calcutta Law College who was gang-raped on the campus on June 25 has formally shifted to another government-aided law college in the city because continuing on the Kasba campus would have been “a tormenting ...
30 October 2025 TelegraphA deep depression on the Bay of Bengal intensified into Cyclone Montha late on Sunday night, barrelling towards Andhra Pradesh, where it is expected to make landfall on Tuesday night.Post landfall, the storm will have more impact in north ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphFootball is no longer the only bond between Calcutta and Nigeria.The country that once sent players like Chima Okorie, Emeka Ezugo and Chibuzor Nwakanma to the city’s football fields now houses a Kali temple whose deity was shipped from ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphA security guard of a building on Prince Anwar Shah Road was allegedly assaulted on Sunday by employees of a cafe on the ground floor after he accused them of illegal activities. Subrata Pal, in his 70s, has reported ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphA man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly killing his wife and trying to pass it off as a suicide.The couple has a nine-year-old daughter, police said. Officers of Shyampukur police station came to know about the death of ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphSix persons, including two women, were injured when a fire broke out in a shanty on Beltala Road in the Bhowanipore area on Monday afternoon.Bystanders said they spotted flames leaping out of a house on 39 Beltala Road around ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphAutorickshaw services near Deeshari Megacity in Rajpur resumed on Monday morning after being suspended for three days. The disruption began on Friday following a mob attack on the housing complex, allegedly orchestrated by an auto driver and his associates ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphA 25-year-old man from Karnataka, wanted in at least 13 cities for allegedly stealing wallets and mobile phones, was arrested from Ernakulam in Kerala by the Bidhannagar city police on Sunday.Kurapati Ajay allegedly used stolen credit and debit cards ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphChhath Puja’s first evening on Monday was as vibrant and noisy as Diwali, particularly around the ghats and temporary tanks set up for the occasion.Devotees thronged the banks of the Hooghly, creating a colourful spectacle of devotion and festivity.Chief ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphThe daily direct flight from Calcutta to Guangzhou is fully booked for the next three days, until October 29, with only a few seats available at high fares from October 30 for the following four days, as of Monday ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphThe vice-chancellors of Jadavpur University and Calcutta University are set to be appointed on Tuesday.Ashutosh Ghosh will be named VC of Calcutta University. He had earlier served as the university’s interim VC in 2017.Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, currently president of the ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphA man allegedly fired at his estranged girlfriend in Jadavpur on Monday evening. The bullet missed, leaving the woman unharmed, police said.The incident occurred around 7pm near 2/195 D Bijoygarh, police sources said.The police said the man, originally from ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphEight people were injured as a fire broke out at a slum in south Kolkata's Beltala area on Monday afternoon, officials said.A fire engine managed to put off the flames in an hour, they said.The blaze is suspected to ...
28 October 2025 TelegraphWhat could be the common link between a teenage girl with irregular or delayed menstrual cycles, a young woman with stubborn body weight who has been trying to get pregnant for two years, a middle-aged diabetic woman on insulin ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe clubs in and around Rabindra Sarobar will remain shut on Monday and partially on Tuesday to ensure no one enters south Calcutta’s largest park with a water body and performs Chhath rituals.This year, Chhath Puja will be celebrated ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphTwo persons have been arrested in connection with the incident of dousing a man with petrol and setting him ablaze at Nagerbazar.Ranjit Karmakar, a resident of Nagerbazar Bediapara, was allegedly doused with petrol and then was set ablaze with ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphMore than three weeks have passed since Durga Puja concluded, yet almost a third of Deshapriya Park remains occupied by the pandal. According to the puja organisers, dismantling the entire structure will take another fortnight. While the pandal stands ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphMisconceptions like children cannot have kidney diseases or a child will have kidney ailments only if the parents have it are barriers that delay treatment, doctors said at a meet on rare kidney diseases in the city on Saturday. ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphA man who had picked up a fight with some of his friends died after being hit with a shovel on his neck in Chetla late on Saturday. Two people have been arrested. Ashok Paswan, 42, a mechanic ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphGovernment-run hospital authorities will start meeting the agencies that deploy contractual employees in hospitals from Monday to pass on directives issued to the hospitals in a meeting with senior state government officials on Saturday. At the meeting held on ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphA GST and customs department officer was allegedly attacked inside his flat by a group of men who intruded into the apartment situated in a gated community in Rajpur on the southern edge of the city on Thursday night, ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe vandalism within the gated community at Rajpur on Thursday night has instilled feelings of insecurity among the residents of the housing complex to such an extent that they have decided to increase the height of the campus’s boundary ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphAll the remaining gaps in the much-anticipated Orange Line, connecting New Garia and Calcutta airport, will be bridged by next year with the state government’s help, said Metro officials. Traffic blocks will be enforced at Chingrighata on EM Bypass ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe cyclone brewing on the Bay will have more impact in Bengal after landfall in Andhra Pradesh than when it is on the sea, said Met officials.The system, around 1,200km away from the Bengal coast on Sunday morning, is ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has requested ₹9 lakh per month from the state government to appoint 30 security personnel and two security supervisors for the campus. A JU official said that apart from setting up CCTV cameras, for which the state ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphA man died after being allegedly attacked with an iron rod by miscreants following an altercation in the southern part of the city's Chetla area, police said on Sunday.The incident took place near the Chetla bus stand on Saturday ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe transfer of ownership of “non-transport vehicles”, like private cars, can be endorsed and recorded by any registering authority, irrespective of the address of the purchaser, the state’s transport department has decided. “The vehicle’s purchaser may be allowed to ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe man riding a two-wheeler was stopped near the New Alipore bridge on Friday night by a group of men and allegedly robbed of valuables after he refused to pay ₹5,000 as a subscription for Kali Puja.Police arrested two ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphAn interim order from a division bench of the high court has authorised the conduct of Chhath rituals at a private ghat in Bally, Howrah, during the hearing of an appeal challenging a single bench decision that restricted public ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphChhath Puja will be celebrated on Monday evening and Tuesday morning.Nearly 140 ghats, makeshift and permanent, in Calcutta, 51 ghats in Howrah, and one in New Town have been prepared for the occasion. Metro provides detailed information regarding the ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued notices to nearly 20 companies whose advertisements remained on billboards after the deadline for removal, set seven days after Bijoya Dashami, a civic official said on Friday.The letters sent to these companies ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe cyclone brewing in the Bay is set to make landfall in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night, the Met office has said.Bengal might escape with heavy rain in some coastal pockets and thunderstorms in other areas, including Calcutta, between ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphThe killers of a 26-year-old man, found dead in a hotel room on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road, had executed a carefully planned murder, police said on Saturday.The victim, identified as Rahul Lal of Collin Lane in Taltala, was discovered ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphSeveral women of a family were allegedly molested, and the male members assaulted, when a group of men allegedly broke down their door, barged into their home, and ransacked the house after one of the family members protested against ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphAmit Mallick, accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in a washroom at SSKM Hospital on Wednesday, obtained a doctor’s uniform either from NRS Medical College and Hospital — where he worked as a Group D staffer — or from ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphAssociate professor of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Dibyendu Das, has been selected for the prestigious ‘Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award’ under the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) 2025, officials said on Saturday.Das, an associate professor ...
27 October 2025 TelegraphKolkata Metro will run 236 services on the Blue Line and 226 on the Green Line on 'Chhath Puja' on October 27, authorities said in a statement.On the Blue Line (Dakshineswar-Shahid Khudiram), Metro will run 236 services (118 UP ...
26 October 2025 TelegraphThe family of Ranjit Karmakar, who was allegedly doused with petrol and set ablaze in front of his house at Nagerbazar on Wednesday night after a Kali Puja immersion, has accused local Trinamool Congress councillor Mrinmoy Das of trying ...
26 October 2025 TelegraphPolice have filed charges of penetrative sexual assault and rape against a man who allegedly wore a uniform and posed as a child specialist to sexually assault a 13-year-old girl inside a toilet at SSKM Hospital on Wednesday.Investigators on ...
26 October 2025 TelegraphThe repair job at Kavi Subhash (New Garia) Metro station of the Blue Line will be taken up “as soon as possible” once Chhath Puja celebrations are over, Subhransu Sekhar Mishra, the new general manager of Metro Railway, said ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe decomposed body of a man, who had checked into a hotel on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road on Wednesday, was found hidden inside the storage of the bed in the room on Friday morning after the next guest who ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA constable and a sub-inspector at Uttar Kashipur police station in Bhangar were allegedly attacked when a team from the police station arrived at Dakshin Bamunia to stop an illegal construction on Thursday afternoon.Three people have been arrested for ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe 38-year-old woman who was allegedly attacked, dragged, and molested for protesting against a group bursting loud firecrackers and throwing them towards her compound recounted the horror to Metro.My family and I went downstairs to the ground floor of ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA 38-year-old teacher was allegedly dragged out of her home, beaten, and molested on the road by a group of men participating in a Kali Puja immersion procession in Garia late on Thursday night. The men allegedly threatened to ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA low-pressure area near the Andaman coast is expected to intensify into this year’s first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal next week, the Met office has said.“Under the influence of Thursday’s upper-air cyclonic circulation over the southeast Bay ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphFrom doctors to Group D staff, almost no one wears an identity card in government hospitals. There is hardly any quality control of security personnel selected for hospitals, and supervision of security staff on duty is minimal.The rape of ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphBe prepared for a hattrick,” the words appeared on the backlit screen, followed by the name and picture of Anirban Das as the organisers broke into applause.The man of the moment stepped up on Sunday to take charge of ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe decomposed body of a youth, suspected to have been murdered, was found in a room of a hotel in central Kolkata on Friday, police said.The body of the unidentified youth was stacked in the locked wardrobe of a ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphWatching a procession for Kali Puja immersion pass by the street turned into a harrowing, night-long ordeal for a Kolkata family on Saturday, the incident coming to light on Friday against the backdrop of multiple such acts of hooliganism ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphHalf. That’s the portion of Haraprosad Bhattacharyya’s AE Block plot on which he has built his garden. So his garden is as big as his house, and if he’s not resting in the house, he’s surely working in the ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe block also staged a second fashion show, titled Epar Bangla, Opar Bangla, and explored the oft-debated theme of Bangal (with origins in pre-Partition east Bengal, now Bangladesh) and Ghoti (rooted in West Bengal) lifestyles, food habits, customs and ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphIn an age when kids spend their free time on phones, DL Block organised a fashion show to remind them all the other constructive activities they could indulge in, in a fashion show titled Amar Shaishob.The show opened with ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThis is a science that is going to change the way we look at medicine,” Dr Somnath Chatterjee, chairman and joint managing director, Suraksha Clinic and Diagnostics, told The Telegraph Salt Lake minutes before taking the stage to inaugurate ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe Mussaenda is a spectacular bloomer. The ornamental shrub is highly prized for its dazzling, long-lasting display that gives the plant an exotic appeal and if some simple steps are taken, they could soon be growing abundantly in your ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe drumroll for next year’s Durga puja has already started at Dum Dum Park where the area’s oldest puja is set to turn 75. On Sunday, at a musical soiree held on the road facing their pandal site, adjacent ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphThe one occasion of the year when residents of New Town are reminded that Akankha More is officially Mangaldeep crossing, because of the imposing installation of the lamp on a stand on the central island, was back in its ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphAnd just like that, it’s all over! Durga puja starting in September, and then Kali puja, Diwali, Bhai Phonta in October; why, even Jagaddhatri puja will be done and dusted by the end of next week. All major autumn ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphNew Town is set to be helmed by new administrative leadership. While the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) got a chairperson in Chandrima Bhattacharya by an order from Nabanna dated September 9, ahead of Diwali, the New Town ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphGC Block’s Kali Puja paid tribute to the timeless blockbuster Sholay, marking its 50th anniversary. The pandal was decorated with iconic images and dialogues from the film, and life-sized cutouts of the characters were placed around the park for ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphTwo men were arrested on Thursday for allegedly attacking Nirmal Dutta, a former Trinamool councillor of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation. On Monday, a gunman attempted to open fire at Dutta, but the weapon failed. The assailant instead struck ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphIIT Kharagpur has resolved to close the procedure regarding show-cause notices and to initiate disciplinary measures against four office-bearers of the teachers’ association that were taken last year during the administration of V.K. Tewari, the previous director.An IIT official ...
25 October 2025 TelegraphA man accused of molesting and assaulting a woman on a road outside Dakshineswar Metro station on Tuesday evening was arrested on Thursday.In a complaint filed at Dakshineswar police station the same day, the woman alleged that the incident ...
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